TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernández-Armesto,Felipe
TI  - Near a thousand tables: a history of food 
SN  - 0743227409
AV  - TX353. F437 2002
U1  - 641.3009 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Free Press
KW  - Food
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The Invention of Cooking: The First Revolution --; 2; The Meaning of Eating: Food as Rite and Magic --; 3; Breeding to Eat: The Herding Revolution: From "Collecting" Food to "Producing" It --; 4; The Edible Earth: Managing Plant Life for Food --; 5; Food and Rank: Inequality and the Rise of Haute Cuisine --; 6; The Edible Horizon: Food and the Long-Range Exchange of Culture --; 7; Challenging Evolution: Food and Ecological Exchange --; 8; Feeding the Giants: Food and Industrialization in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
N2  - "In Near a Thousand Tables, Oxford historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history - ecology as well as gastronomy." "At the heart of this engrossing book are what Fernandez-Armesto calls the eight great revolutions in the world history of food: the origins of cooking, which set humankind on a course apart from other species; the ritualization of eating, which brought magic and meaning into people's relationship with what they ate; the inception of herding and the invention of agriculture, perhaps the two greatest revolutions of all; the rise of inequality; which made food an indicator of rank and led to the development of haute cuisine; the long-range trade in food, which, practically alone, broke down cultural barriers; the ecological exchanges, which revolutionized the global distribution of plants and livestock; and, finally, the industrialization and globalization of food. Near a Thousand Tables reveals what microwave families and tube-fed astronauts have in common with pre-social hominids; why India is the source of street food in Cairo and court food in Isfahan; why the name "avocado" is derived from an Aztec anatomical term."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -